The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1887-03-12
FARM NOTES.

In no other country in the world are
the feathers of the barnyard fowls 80
wrccklessly wasted rs in our own.
Prof. Cook, of Lansing, Mich, has
killed cabbage worm with a mixture of
one pound of bubach with 200 gallons
Of water.
During 1886 the advance in the price
Of merino wool in Europe, from the
lowest to the highest point, was 90 TO
40 per cent.
Land ploughed when it Is too wet be
comes cloddy, and may be injured 10
such degree that years Of sod viii
not effect restoration.
Don't leave the management of your
teams entirely 10 the boys or your
hired hands. They may make mis-
takes which will give You trouble.
Dairy Commissioner Howard, Of
Minnesota, estimates the butter pro-
duet of the State at S14.0O0,O)0 or one
million less that the wheat crop.
Too heavy shoes should he avoided
in shoeing young horses. 1t tends TO
make them awkward, and Is an un-
necessary burden for them to bear.
! High-bred horses should not be work
Nd in the collar, because their should
= are so sharp pointed and slanting
the collar viii not fit over them.
trees, evergrccns and fiowe--
=, planted among the hives.
-love the sameness of the
summer give a grateful
and their keeper.
representatives. passed
276 yeas against -
large the duties Of
Agriculture, which
uvmmgaaaA1aL department a
g.
A slow miIker should never be al
lowed to touch cow If a cow milEs
easily, good milker should he able To
get all the milk in five minutes, and
he will get more than a person who
t.kes ten minutes to do the same work.
A nine year old trotter named Pre-
tender il said TO be the coming wonder.
He is by Dictator from Winona, she
by Almont, second dam Dolly, dam
of Director, Thorndale and Onward,
and SIS, 600 has been refused for him by
his owner, Mr.. Black, Of Frankfort,
KY. The horse has never yet trotted
in public.
There are many reasons for selling
butter soon after ii is made. One is
that, besides the natural deterioration
from keeping, it is constantly losing
weight Evaporation of the moisture
il contains goes on in all kinds of
weather, and as water goes ont air fills
the vacant spaces and soon makes the
butter rancid.
The destructive action of salt in ex-
cess on Vegetation is turned to account
something i'm destroying weeds on gar
den paths, &C. 1T can also be taken
advantage Of at times as a corrective to
the over-stimuiating effects of nitrate
of soda and other manure on wheat
crops When these are running too
much to straw an application of salt
may check this tendency and prevent
lodging Some of our farmers use salt
on grass lands as compost with vegi-
table matter
An old farmer says that there is no
feed so good to keep animals in flesh
during winter as scalded oats For
mares, cows and sheep that are to raise
young, il is superior to almost any
other feed, as it not only puts the ami
NAL in good condition to furnish milk
abundantly, but the young at birth
are strong and active. Wheat bran Is
also an excellent feed for breeding ami
mails, given in the form of mess.
The old fashioned dasher churn is
ilarbarious relic of the past. Thare Is
no necessity for tuggIng away for an
hour in order TO make the butter come.
In fact, milk is churned no longer-the
cream beng separated from il and the
butter being made by compelling the
cream to fall from the top of the churn
10 the bottom, instead Of plunging into
IL with dasher bored with holes.
Hence, in procuring a churn, get one
that revolves, a. it will greatly lessen
the labor and afford the best conditions